It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. |
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. |
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. |
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. |
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. |
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. |
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. |
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. |
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. |
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. |